Show THE MURALS MORALS OF HORSE 14 RACING laik inck of pace pre precluded chided the possibility hill lity ot of our ip implying plying editor lilly ill all oln lal 1141 issue to lo to letters upon tin that moral aspects 0 of horse which milich appeared ther thercie cin ono one ot of pointedly point cilly anil and the divier imp hedly asked for ike views of the alie J lit Is VA 1 upon that klinl subject sub jett whatever may inny liy by lie regard or dk regard paid to tile utterances of 0 tile jal L it il is ij our purpose ich out fear ear or favor avor to uphold ali the right anil cond coin ilia wron wrong whenever it becomes become our ditt duty y to state soto an in opinion d upon any ny subject and to express oy only such sentiments ak ii nrc fire in harmony with the reli giru and nd the highest ciril and moral interests interest of the latter day saints sainta combined will this aln i shall be the avian to accord to ill all persons persona that lint freedom ot of conscience we claim the right to ex cv arciso unit anti to avoid nry savor of I 1 fiig ig otry its 03 well as ill H unjust and in wise intolerance the custom of 0 staking money on oil the result of ek t trial of 0 sill speed ell between two or more mora horses is a hig highly lill popular and widely prevalent one and nil is 15 often en engaged aged in by men w m hose personal lionor and general engral en cral reputation ire arc deemed aboto reproach in many instances it passes losses evert even by the lie religious teachers and moral instructors of the people and by the musses mases generally even the roli religious ious world it is not condemned as are arc ordinary games lines of 0 chance played for money but neither prevalence nor popularity can laake virtue of A lice ice it A wrong act is none the less lesa wrong because frequently perpetrated ina in the social respectability of a sinner never makes his sin less sinful in our view the language langu larig nom oge C which describes dec the custom of belting on horse races as a vice is none too strong it is a custom which embodies the essential elements of pure anti and simple gambling anti and all the principle objections that coa legitimately be urged against orala ordinary ary g games 0 tf chance hn ou n money is ia staled staked to it it is a thoroughly Aly settled principle of 0 enlightened christian and scriptural ethics that it is wrong to take money without returning an an equivalent this is the essential element that all garri gambling liling it wrong does docs not the vv inner of a wager st staked acci on a horse race take the money without returning to the loser tiny any equivalent whatever what then is the essential difference intveen taking such ft A wager and appropriating tile the money which was on a 1 I game ame of cards carda the most ardent must there is ili no essential essen difference hat but shall horse racing be condemned because it is wrong to let lct on the result As aa well condemn ball playing or any other healthful sport or because tile the saino may bo be mails made tile the occasion tor for staking slaking money mone r ile iia is indeed a poor lo 10 logician gi who cannot see sec the horld difference cuca between the ilia lit act of running to IBO horses for or the purpose of nit n witnessing a contest ot of speed and the act of brakin blaking money on cit ilia result there islic is no essential essential likeness nor connection whatever between them there is no more liagin in vi it hackl it 1 a I I 1 trial rial of toor moie horses aa they fly over the turf than there is iu in admiring the birds ni as they 11 lly V through the air or the as they sport lit in ilia water tile writer of 0 one of ilia hie ichters to ghiela we are arc now replying who signed himself Re spice 11 new tails fails to make the distinction beav between ean a prize slid a ledger put up to be ni won on by tile fastest horse and though his litter latter is 1 l ambiguously isor worded ded it leaves tho the impression that the writer would condemn the racing of horses for either cither though there is ii a ta st difference between them A prize lirie is usually in as a ic ward of 0 merit it a testimonial of superiority to tile owner osner of the fastest horse ILIS II 11 13 natall not an amount which is hazarded with the chance of winning a like sum it is an inducement to the ovIr ners of fast horses to tal take a tile the time and trouble to to train train their bleeds and exhibit their lowers in ili a far and open contest jt it is competed acted lot for less because of its intrinsic alue than the honor of if winning it itis it is usually offered bythe by alic persons firm or under whose auspices the race Is 0 iian ghan and they iu in turn tire are reimbursed by the gate money tuo the spectators pay to see the race find the same money makes up the purse wod as a prize true the money changes hands but every time it does docs io nil an is returned for it the filettA tOTS pay it for admission race the parties who receive it pay it butia out id the faiia of prizes to the nien men ilaise horse hive furnis lied to the multitude and aid those men receive it as EEL a small email return for the ihu efforts they have madeko macoto it lvery essential element of the let act of gambling gani lAino la is lacking lac liing in ilia competition tor for a prize offered it at a horse race and there is ab nb n more harm harin in offering ott ering or compel compact bog D h sst fadl a pric thin there ii I 1 tit 11 offering kofl aring will anil competing for the prizes prices affred at till ni agricultural fair or a cattle show we have no with tile I 1 MOWS of men lien A mho coal condemn lell it ill an amuse ament innocent and in itself because it is sometimes made the occasion of wrong doing what fort form os of inight riot not be con coal on sudan amli a pretext bya fierson 7 raving racing in anil and of ilsc it is 1111 innocent biml highly enjoyable nt it encourages in in our mot valuable domestic air animals I 1 1111 1 ile see no VAIN of jedion Je cion to its en coura ci even T tile inoel conscientious latter day saints a tits ilia io its ill a 0 rule rale too hard and ami I C too little in ill anti relaxation for or their own good cooj or tatt of the offspring Is they tire nrc rearing but betting belting on oil horse races is is wrong true there are arc other vi which tire far more anoro to public morals ino but it il is nevertheless nc a custom is not in bar harmony many feitli eiith the religion of 0 the latter day saints nor the of 0 god given for their gui guidance alance that people pc oili touch the choir ir youth to shun it I 1 as 13 a N vice ice for or precisely tile same reasons that gain gambling bling ft cards or in any other oilier fort orai A be shunned is As correspondents have written inviting 0 our views apoll this tin subject find and as it has recently hoen been a theme of more or less lit in our community i wo have taken the liberty of 0 treating it at some length not for or the pair purpose pose of p censuring censuring those nho ho may differ from our views vices of the matter hut but rather tor for the ilia purpose of 0 presenting sentiments in ill relation to it which we bellevo will be endorsed by all right thinking peo plo isla in our community |